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uhhg, your site has inline css styling your layout. divs with no name are going to make it more work to fix. normally you just rename the divs in the BP theme files to match your WP theme to use the same styling.

You will need to add your own CSS to to make the BP layout work right.

You should always test plugins before pushing them to a live site even though they say they are compatible.

This site runs a child theme of BP-Default. You aren’t using BP-Default, obviously, so it won’t look like this site. The idea is that the template pack gives you the minimum required to allow you to style the BuddyPress template files to match your theme.

Yep, 1.3 does use wp pages, but that doesn’t mean that it will work with just any theme. All it does is tell WP to use a certain template file when a certain page is called. The markup is still BP template files.This also only works with root level pages like directories.

I think BP 1.3 will use WP pages and will work with any WP theme

@tvanbroekhuizen Did you install any new plugins lately? I recall experiencing that very same thing in a test install while checking out recently released BP plugins within the past week or so, more or less. I reported it and it was fixed right away, just can’t remember which plugin it was …

I give pretty much all my work away for free, but I fully support the right of others not to do so. As @travel-junkie suggests, in the long run the community will be healthier if there are multiple paths available for developers to create GPL code and at the same time make a living. Some will do this by client work and some through premium plugins.

Wow I agree, that’s a great theme and it gives me some really interesting ideas for use with BuddyPress!

Please note:

There are at least two “mail from” plug-ins. One does NOT work after BuddyPress has been activated. while the other one DOES.

The one that does NOT work is called “wp-mailfrom.” It only works as long as BuddyPress is not active.

The other one, called “mail from”, DOES work. It works even when BuddyPress is active.

Create a gravatar for the email on your account here and it will show up.

Thanks for passing along the info, @r-a-y !

@Driftless1 “Are we trying to artificially create a difference where there is none? Or is the difference there – Buddypress is just not making it clear enough?”

I think they are all the same, they are all just conversations, with different ways of going about having it. Buddypress seems confusing or lost in between because it is rightfully tyring to integrate these barely different means of having conversations into one more complete and convenient system.

The site I am working on has had a main news/blog section for about 3 years now. So I am looking at 3 main types of conversations

1. Comments on news articles and the comments on their comments which can become a lot like a forum topic.

2. An actual forum topic started by the user them self about something they feel is important enough for the world to hear.

3. Short and pointless twitter/facebook type comments that they don’t necessarily care to share with the world, whether it is because it is private or they know it just isn’t important enough, just something for friends who might be interested in know “omg! i finally finished all my cleaning my gutters!”

I think it just comes down to the user. It is about a user and their conversations, where ever they are taking place, then being fed back to one convenient location for all their buddies to find. I think it would be really neat to create some kind of universal user profile similar to gravatar so what ever website you are on, you can comment there and it will feed back to your personal profile with a link to that website and that comment so your friends can see what you are talking about out there and maybe jump in the conversation also. This would obviously open a pandora’s box of options on how or where you want your conversations to appear, but I’m certain that is the direction for “web 2.0.” The same way we boycot proprietary code, browsers, file types, or software, I think we will boycot myspaces and facebooks for universal profiles.

Thanks @arques

Subscribing to thread as I created an account just minutes ago and also get the upload failed error ON THIS SITE (buddypress.org) when trying to upload a jpg image for my avatar.

`Upload Failed! Error was: Unable to create directory /home/buddypress/public_html/wpmu/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/avatars/6902189. Is its parent directory writable by the server?`

BP Album+ has been renamed BuddyPress Media (not to be confused with KalturaCE’s). I don’t know if they already have video uploading capability or how it’s working, but check it out https://buddypress.org/community/groups/bp-album/

Post videos and photo galleries – https://buddypress.org/community/groups/post-rich-videos-and-photos-galleries/ though not quite sure how well it integrates with BuddyPress

BP Gallery – BuddyDev.com members plugin by @sbrajesh does it for me

Any reason this site (buddypress.org) doesn’t use gravatars?

I am also having this problem and I see no new information. Is there a fix?

Wow! Thank you @nuprn1!

follow up: I took a look at the BuddyPress widget pack… that gives you widgets for member (popular, etc.) not for groups.

To set the tab order in the tabbed widgets plugin, it looks like you can just do it from the widget’s admin panel… changing the tab from the dropdown.

Unfortunately, the widget broke in my install, so I can test it.